Now if the first fruits be holy, so is the mass: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

But if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou though a wild olive hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

for if God spared not the native branches, tremble lest he spare not thee.

For if thou hast been cut out of the naturally wild olive, and contrary to nature hast been grafted into the good olive: how much more shall these, which are native branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?